Maryam was born to be a healer. At least that’s what Judith, the village midwife who raised her, always told her. Under Judith’s wing, Maryam learns the ways of the natural world and of the Mother Goddess. On her own, she discovers, and then questions, God after she is brutally raped. Coming of age, Maryam struggles with choosing between Mother and God, healer and wife. According to Judith and her community, Maryam cannot have both. It simply isn’t done.
Twenty years in the making, Mary Walks is an alternate, imaginative view of one of history’s most enigmatic young women: Mary, mother of Jesus. Through the depths of senseless violence, our heroine is forced upon discovering her deepest truth: the union of both Mother Goddess and God within her own miraculous body. Radha’s gritty retelling of the story passed down for centuries at the center of mainstream religious beliefs dispels the myth and puts the legendary figure into a corporeal body for readers.
The Reviews are in:
“Today I finished the novel Mary Walks, written and narrated by Radha, a writer who has become a sweet sister friend thanks to her presence as a teacher at Movement Lab where I go to dance, learn, and play. Mary Walks is Radha’s debut novel that tells the story of the woman most commonly known as the mother of Jesus, La Virgen, the Virgin Mary. It is the story that the world is now ready to hear now (for so many reasons…). This is Mary’s story, unvarnished and pure. It is a gorgeous, artful, reverent literary treasure because Radha’s writing is all of that. Yet there is something more uniquely special about Mary Walks: it is currently only available as an audiobook (Google and Apple books, Audible to come), with Radha in the seat of storyteller. This meant that I didn’t “read” Mary Walks; something so much more intimate happened. I breathed it, I held hands with it, I witnessed it and held space for it, I experienced it in body mind and spirit. If you can imagine a book as a journey and a sanctuary and a sacrifice, and you will feel the energy of Mary Walks. To say I recommend this book is only the start! Namaste beautiful story-birther Radha 💙 🙌 💙”
“Mary Walks is not an easy novel. But is a novel every woman should experience. Especially in light of the #metoo movement, and the rising of the feminine that is occurring, this story, twenty years in the making, has come into its time. It portrays Mary not as a virgin, but as a woman apprenticing as a midwife, steeped in the mystery of life. It reveals her true love affair, the one she has with God, and the tragedy and sacrifice demanded for her to walk her true purpose in life. There were so many moments that I could feel her pain as my own, her disappointment as every woman’s. Although it is a deeply personal story, in many ways it is the universal feminine story.”
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Radha believes in the power of story and that we are all, in fact, living, breathing, walking stories. She strives to access those stories not only on the page but through the body. Radha writes literary fiction for adults and children and her work has appeared (under the name of Heather Leah Huddleston) in Forge Journal, on the TEDx stage, in Reader’s Digest, and in many other print and online publications.
Radha also works as an AntiGravity® and meditation instructor, and as a creative and spiritual guide.Learn More